简单人生——由心而发

摘要：由心，是心力够了、充分了，再去作为，没有勉强的东西。由心而发就是发愿，依愿行。

简单人生很重要，我们能不能做到简单人生？

实际你少一分造作，你就多一分安乐。 我们去做一分由心而发的事情，你就会体验一分心灵不可思议的作用。所以我们要由心而发地去做事情。

由心而发就是发愿，依愿行。你心里面有愿望了再去作为，而不是说被迫地、造作地去做，那都不是由心而发的。我们每一天、每个月、一生中，由心而发的事情并不多。由心而发，你会有娱乐、美好的东西，做事也特别省力。

我们要不是由心而发，就会迷失在外缘外境、他人言说或攀比中，找不到美好的东西，到处奔波攀缘，很辛苦。

由心而发很重要！由心，是心力够了、充分了，再去作为，没有勉强的东西。要不是由心的，就很被动消极。这样的人常常会累趴下，会身心疲惫。

好比别人说“你家这么脏啊”，他就赶紧打扫去了，他不是自己需要干净整洁。别人说“你应该这样、那样了”，他就去做了，没有审视过是不是自身的需要。跟着别人的话跑，一定会累的。

又比如，妻子说“你看人家的孩子怎样怎样，人家怎样怎样”，他就赶紧忙着去做了。其实每个人都有自己的所长所短，这种攀比太逼迫，让人感到太辛苦了。很多人，甚至家人之间都逼迫得没法活。父母把孩子逼得没法活，孩子把父母逼得没法活；男人把女人逼得没办法，女人把男人逼得没办法……现在太多这样的事了，大家活得都不舒展。为什么呢？没有由心而发的东西，会让人生变得痛苦与复杂。

简单美好地生活，需要觉悟者给予的智慧和方法。由心而发——依愿行，就是最直接的用心方式。它能让我们的作为有一个清晰的依止与参照，让我们对每一个心念与作为都能负起充分的责任。

心力够了、充分了，再去作为，就主动、简单。主动，就不负累；简单，就有力。

生命之光～阳光早餐

开明师兄整理于2019年2月

How to simplify our life – doing things from the heart

It is important to make our life simple. Can we actually achieve it? In fact, if we are more sincere, we feel more peaceful and happier. If we do things from the heart, we will experience an incredible power coming from within.

Making a vow is a way to do things from the heart. We should act according to our vow or start to do something after we have a genuine motivation, rather than have to do it involuntarily and passively. We barely do things from the heart everyday, every month or even in our entire life. Once we act with motivation, we discover fun and beauty in doing things while saving efforts.

On the contrary, if we fail to do things from the heart, we will be lost in the outside phenomena such as what other people say or competition with others. Instead of finding the beauty, we feel exhausted by running around and comparing with others.

This is why it is crucial to do things from the heart. We start acting when our heart is powerful enough. There should be nothing imposed upon us. Otherwise, we remain passive and inactive. Such people often end up burning out, physically and mentally exhausted.

For example, after you hear other people gossiping about how dirty your house is, you rush to clean your house. You do so not because you need your house to be clean and tidy, but because other people say you should do. You will get tired out if you keep following other people’s words.

It isn’t unusual to rush doing the same things as our friends for fear of being compared with. But everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Many of us, especially among family members, love to bring out our weaknesses to compare with the strengths of our friends thus feel pressure to catch up. And frequently we push our kids or spouse in a way so hard that they can not bear it. Nowadays, many husbands drive their wives crazy and vice versa. Parents drive their kids mad and vice versa. Most of us do not feel happy. Why? Almost nothing is done from the heart. Thus our life becomes painful and complicated.

We need the wisdom and methods provided by the enlightened ones to make our life simple and beautiful. Doing things from the heart is such a method that provides us a clear reliance and reference and enables us to take the responsibilities for our minds and actions. Our life will become active and simple if we act only when we feel our heart is powerful enough. We will never feel burdened if we are active. We will be powerful if we are simple.